Zum Beispiel das wunderbare Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert, genau der richtige Stoff in diesen Frühlingstagen. Oder Italo Calvinos Die unsichtbaren Städte, das ich mir auf Anregung von moon river eben aus dem Bücherregal genommen habe: *Italo Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities’ is a collection of surreal short stories about cities visited by the traveller Marco Polo, places where people act, depict and consider things that make no sense or are impossible.
It is written as of a succession of dialogues - meditative conversations between Kublai Khan, the emperor and Marco Polo, the traveller and visitor to Khan’s Empire. Marco Polo is describing to Kublai Khan various fantastic cities he saw on his travels in order for the Emperor to comprehend the sheer size of his own empire (home).*